USA Famous People of Alabama

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bullet Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron (1934 - ) Baseball player that holds the record for home runs and runs batted in; born in Mobile.
bullet George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943), educator and agricultural chemist at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute.
bullet Nathaniel Adams “Nat King” Cole (1917 - 1965) Popular singer known as the man with the velvet voice and song “Unforgettable”; born in Montgomery.
bullet Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) Famous minister and civil rights leader; lived in Montgomery.
bullet Mae Jemison (1956 - ) First African-American woman in space; born in Decatur.
bullet Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Blind and deaf author and lecturer; born in Tuscumbia.
bullet Harper Lee (1926 - ) Pulitzer Prize author of To Kill a Mockingbird; born in Monroeville.
bullet Carl Lewis (1961 - ) Olympic Gold Medallist in track and field; born in Birmingham.
bullet Joe Louis (1914 - 1981) Famous boxer; born in Lexington.
bullet Willie Howard Mays (1931 - ) Famous baseball player; born in Westfield.
bullet James Cleveland (Jesse) Owens (1913 - 1980) Track & Field athlete.  Winner of four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics; born in Oakville.
bullet Rosa Parks (1913 - ) Civil rights leader who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, born in Tuskegee.
bullet Heather Whitestone (1973 - ) In 1995 served as the first Miss America chosen with a disability; born in Dothlan.
bullet Hiram “Hank” Williams (1923 - 1953) Country western singer, born in Georgiana.
bullet Tuscaloosa, Choctaw chief.

More Famous People of Alabama

bullet Ralph Abernathy civil rights activist, Linden
bullet Tallulah Brockman Bankhead actress, Huntsville
bullet Hugo LaFayette Black jurist, Harlan
bullet Marva Collins educator, Monroeville
bullet Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald writer, Montgomery
bullet Bobby Goldsboro entertainer, Dothan
bullet William Crowford Gorgas army officer, physician, Mobile
bullet Lionel Hampton jazz musician, Birmingham
bullet William Christopher Handy composer, Florence
bullet Emmy Lou Harris singer, Birmingham
bullet Kate Jackson actress, Birmingham
bullet Percy Lavon Julian inventor, Montgomery
bullet Helen Adams Keller author, educator, Tuscumbia
bullet Coretta Scott King civil rights leader, Marion
bullet Jim Nabors actor, Sylacauga
bullet Jimmie Rodgers singer, Geiger
bullet David Satcher surgeon general, Anniston
bullet Waldo L. Semon inventor, Demopolis
bullet George Wallace governor, Clio
bullet William Weatherford (Red Eagle) Creek Indian leader

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